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Joe Lauria, freelance reporter and co-author with former senator Mike Gravel of the new book A Political Odyssey, discusses his article “The Personification of the Military-Industrial Racket,” McCain foreign policy adviser Randy Scheunemann’s long, diabolical history as a chief neocon and war-salesman, McCain’s side-jobs as a foreign asset first for Iran and now Georgia and how luring Russia to retaliate against Georgia may have been instigated to strengthen McCain’s campaign and ratchet up arms sales.

Joe Lauria is a New York-based investigative journalist. A freelance member of the Sunday Times of London Insight team, he has also worked on investigations for the Boston Globe and Bloomberg News. Joe’s articles have additionally appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Daily Telegraph, The Daily Mail, The Guardian, The Montreal Gazette, The Johannesburg Star, The Washington Times, New York Magazine, ARTnews and other publications. He is the author with former U.S. Senator and presidential candidate Mike Gravel of A Political Odyssey: The Rise of American Militarism and One Man’s Fight to Stop It, published by Seven Stories Press, with a foreword by Daniel Ellsberg.

The Pharisees ( the modern likes of Jacob Schiff/Max Warburg) are still at war with Russia ( they still resent how the revolution went against them..that Trotsky guy getting murdered..” oy, that’s where it all began to go wrong..” Their war-profiteering allies are in on the grand game too..
Yes, these guys are up in the owner’s box while the quasi-Christians, Shia and Sunni kill each other…Almost as good ( in their eyes ) as WW I when Christian Europe destroyed itself….all of the above is why there is no answer in politics..